Eat, drink, and be merry, people!

Another Magical Moment.

The Holiday Season has officially gotten underway at planet mancuso! The kids celebrated Thanksgiving with their friends today at their school's annual feast, and are now off for the holiday until the Monday after Thanksgiving. We then decided to make a quick trip down to Disney MGM to see the Osbourne Spectacle of Lights display.













































After seeing the more than a million lights dance to music, John and Jack rode Rock-n-Rollercoaster then we made for the exit. We decided to stop in at Scoops, a little corner ice cream joint, for some, well, ice cream. We placed our orders, and as John went to pay, an official "Magical Moments" dude stepped in and told us that our ice cream was on Mickey today!

Let the music play.

Yesterday afternoon we had the opportunity to watch and listen to Jack and Leah's first band performance. The school band is new this year, so the kids have only been practicing together since August. Most of the kids in the band only first started their instruments in August as well. They have had to learn how to put their instruments together, take them apart, clean them, read music, follow the conductor's leads, actually play the right notes at the same time as everyone else, and also, breathe at some point. So for only having been together for three months, it was pretty impressive!

Everything and the kitchen sink.

To celebrate her official move into teenagerdom, Gheghe and I took Leah, along with Olivia, Leah's longtime friend and neighbor, and Ashley, Leah's longtime friend and cousin, to Disney for the weekend. We spent Saturday at Magic Kingdom, pretty much both opening and closing the park. Saturday night we stayed at Coronado Springs Resort, and then spent Sunday at MGM. We finished the weekend at Beaches & Cream Ice Cream Shoppe, where we indulged in the "kitchen sink." It was a great weekend with great company for a great kid!































Happy Birthday Leah!


















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**UPDATED to show the aftermath of the kitchen sink

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